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...29th birthday, as a direct consequence, he protested, of having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator, man the prey. "The ideal woman is a man," he wrote to Actress Ellen Terry -a bleak thought whose comic possibilities were brought out by My Fair Lady's Professor Higgins. ("Why can't a woman be more like...
...Viet Nam rarely shows himself in force except to spring an ambush. So last week, in the largest joint Vietnamese-U.S. Marine operation of:the war, the allies purposefully set out to be ambushed-and thereby lure the Communist ambushers into a giant ambush of allied design. The prey: some 3,700 veteran Viet Cong troops who have been roaming at will up and down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops...
...produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...
Someone said "go". They charged across the room and pounced on the underwear. The photographer took his pictures, and the students were allowed to keep their prey...
...tall and strong and swift of foot were they Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions Because their thought had never been the prey Of care or gain; the green woods were their portions...